Hey #histodons, wondering if there are any folks who have found use in getting green revolution and big science ideas to talk to eachother? #HistoryOfScience #Envhist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three very different books. I won a copy of #Fantasy Miniatures at auction. I adopted a damaged copy of #ForensicEntomology. And I bought a second-hand copy of Volume 1 of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin.

#Warhammer #Wargaming #GamesWorkshop #Insects #Entomology #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

ENTERTAINING, IMPRESSIVELY COMPREHENSIVE history of humanity’s long and confused journey to the discovery of germ theory is a work of popular science with all the propulsive energy of a mystery novel, even though we know the ending. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/so-very-small-thomas-levenson/1146072181?ean=9780593242735

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It took a little while to get around to the artwork for this one, but we finally have the next instalment of the History of Science: The Menga Dolmen.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/menga-dolmen/
#scicomm #history #historyofscience #mengadolmen #neolithic

Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4

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There's a new issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology. It includes the themtic dossier "Towards a global history of eclipses_ Entanglements of disciplines, actors, and practices".

Available on #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/19/1

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Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/28/edinburgh-university-skull-room-highlights-its-complicated-history-with-phrenology #UniversityofEdinburgh #Historyofscience #Scotland #Science #UKnews #Race

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Second-hand copies of The Lying Stones of Marrakech (another one of the essay collections of #StephenJayGould), The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants by Leigh Calvez, and The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee #Books #NaturalHistory #Whales #MarineBiology #Genetics #HistoryOfScience #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Vulcain, planète fantôme du XIXe, a fait rêver les astronomes avant de devenir une belle erreur cosmique. La science aussi se plante parfois.
https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/feldmann/2021/12/15/vulcain-histoire-dune-hypothetique-planete-au-xixe-siecle/
#Space #Astronomy #Vulcain #HistoryOfScience #ScienceMistakes #EmergingTrend

my #bookreview of The elements of #MarieCurie is out now in C&I: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-radiant-legacy.html #HistoryOfScience #biography #women #womeninSTEM

It's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.

Martian Memories

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars

This blog has been a very long time in the making. Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help a few more people find their way to our catalogue as well! https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit #arhives #digipres #historyofscience #physics #nuclearphysics

149 years ago today #GeorgeMurrayLevick was born. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins considered too shocking for the world, as recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/

It is 121 years ago today that the world lost #JohnBellHatcher. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/

my review of the proceedings from the conference on #Copernicus in #Ferrara has been published in the ‘ Annali di Storia delle Università Italiane’

you can read it here: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17396/117143

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought a second-hand copy of #JamesHutton: The Genius of Time from Birlinn Publishing and adopted a damaged copy of The Great Auk from Bloomsbury Sigma that I hope to review soon. Also very pleased to have found a second-hand copy of Peter Wellnhofer's classic The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of #Pterosaurs which was recommended by @markwitton for its section on the history of research (when Witton recommends, I listen).

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Geology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Ornithology #Palaeontology #Paleontology @bookstodon

Good Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.

HT @cdarwin

https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/

Sic transit gloria mundi and the Unapologetic Vatican in the Shapley Supercluster: a recap on cosmic flows by Avi Loeb

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-unapologetic-vatican-in-the-shapley-supercluster-cc8e5023c305

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Two academic books

- "Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" from the University of Chicago Press; and
- "The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire" from Harvard University Press.

Completely unrelated, won at auction, a vintage artbook from #GamesWorkshop by John Blanche and one of my favourite illustrators, Ian Miller.

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